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Show FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOB MARY GARFF 1VELLS Sympathetic friends filled the Richards ward chapel to overflowing at the funeral services held there Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Mary Garff Wells, who died in St. George, March 15. Large banks of floral offerings also paid silent tribute to the deceased. Speakers were united in, praising the accomplishments and worthy character char-acter of Mrs. Wells. Bishop Thomas M. Wheeler of Sugar House ward; former Bishop LeGrand Richards of Sugar House ward; Pres. Frank Y. Taylor of Granite stake, and Bishop Clarence L. Gardiner of Richards ward, who conducted the services spoke. The speakers recalled the activity of Mrs. Wells in various ward capacities, capaci-ties, especially in regard to her leadership lead-ership in a musical way. They praised her for her integrity, adherence adher-ence to truth and right, and her natural na-tural cheerful disposition. Survivors were comforted with reassurances re-assurances of a happy meeting in the resurrection, and with assurances of the reality of the life after this. The invocation was offered by Elder Walter P. Monson of Granite stake high council. A poem, "To Mary," written by her uncle, J. M. Calderwood, was read by Thelma Erickson Ehlers, and another poem, by Belle Anderson, written at the request re-quest of the family, was read by Lucy Mitchell. Musical numbers included a vocal solo, W. L. McAllister; yiolin duet, "A Perfect Day," the Lindsey sisters; vocal solo, "Give Us Vision," LeRoy Frizby; soprano solo, "Come Come Ye Saints," Ruby Childs; violin solo, Bert Leitz; contralto solo, "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth," Agnes Bolto. The benediction was pronounced by Leonard E. Adams of the ward bishopric. Patriarch John M. Whit-aker Whit-aker dedicated the grave at Wasatch Lawn cemetery. Deseret News. |